Soprano
Award-winning Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw was born in Swansea and owes her surname to her Ukrainian grandfather, who settled in Wales during the Second World War. Natalya studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. She was the first person to ever win both the Loveday Song Prize and first prize at the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Awards in 2012. Subsequent awards include the Clonter Opera Prize, London Welsh Singer and the Welsh Singers competitions. In 2009 Natalya represented Wales in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, where she was a Song Prize finalist.
Operatic engagements have included Mimi in La Bohème, Ines in Il Trovatore, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Micaela in Carmen and Krystina in The Passenger, with performances at the Lincoln Center in New York with Houston Grand Opera. She has also sung Governess in The Turn of the Screw for Glyndebourne on Tour; Maliella in I Gioielli della Madonna and Fiora in L’amore dei tre re for Opera Holland Park; Woglinde in a concert performance of excerpts from Das Rheingold with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, and returned to Houston Grand Opera as Ortlinde in Die Walküre.
More recently Natalya made her European debut as Suzel in L’amico Fritz for Den Jyske Opera, and an impressive company debut with Scottish Opera as the Foreign Princess in Rusalka. She also gained unanimous critical acclaim for her outstanding portrayal of Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin for Garsington Opera, which was closely followed by her debut as Lisa in his Queen of Spades in a return to Opera Holland Park.
In 2016/17, her engagements include a return to Scottish Opera as Suzel in L’amico Fritz as part of their ‘Sunday Series’, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder, an operatic movie gala – also with the Hallé – under Stephen Bell, and her role and company debut in the title role of Jenufa for the new Grange Park Opera. Next season she makes her company debut at Welsh National Opera as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin.
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